0 The Project Runway LOOK TV Talent Search: YOUR Opportunity to Audition for the 10th Anniversary Season!

Do YOU want be on Project Runway????

Melon & Peach Boys: Nick Verreos and Project Runway All Stars Season One Winner, Project Runway Season 10 Chicago Castings

If your answer is a resounding "YESSS!!!!!!" , then darlings, keep reading...As you may know, we are now on Season Ten of Project Runway-- Yes, kids, it's the Tenth Anniversary Season (note to self: I feel REALLY OLD!!!).

I flew to Chicago last week to film some fun "Call To Action" videos for a very special contest/opportunity for fashion designers wanting to be on Project Runway for the newest--and most fabulous--fashion and beauty channel on YouTube: Look TV...

Look TV has partnered with the Co-Creators and Executive Producers of Project Runway to create this FIRST TIME EVAHHH (!!!) opportunity: a chance to audition for the show! THIS is your only chance to get a spot on the exclusive Final Closed Casting Session in Los Angeles on May 1st. The search is on for the next Project Runway fashion designer candidate!

Here's what you have to do:
*Submit a creative 1-2 minute video explaining why you're qualified to compete for the show.
*Show us why YOU think you can "Make It Work!"
*Make the best case of what you have to bring to the table as a unique, innovative fashion designer.
*The Look TV/Project Runway team will judge each of your submissions/videos and select their FAVORITE candidate to join the designers already chosen to show their designs--in LA on May 1, 2012.
*At this exclusive closed casting session, one lucky winner will go through an in-person interview and assessment of their designs.
*Look TV will chronicle the journey of our lucky designer hopeful as he or she vies for the spot in the top finalists.
*Do YOU have what it takes to make it to the Final Casting Session?? If you think so, then send your video to: looktvnet@gmail.com.

DEADLINE is April 26 so "Make It Work!"...like NOW!!!!!

Chicago Filming: Nick Verreos filming the Look TV Project Runway Call To Action videos, The James Hotel Chicago

Click Below for the "Call To Action" video I filmed during the Chicago Season 10 Project Runway Castings for the LOOK TV/YouTube "Project Runway Talent Search" giving all the DETAILS:

0 Nick Verreos Will Be In Chicago this Saturday at Macy's State Street!!

Hello Windy City Fashionistas!!!

I'm excited to announce that I will be flying to Chicago this weekend to host a very special "Putting It All Together" Event and Fashion Show at Macy's State Street! EVERYONE is invited--no RSVP needed: ALL of you are VIP! Hello!

I will host a fun event where:
*I will ask members of the audience to style our models in the latest for Spring 2011 for "very special" scenarios--like "How To Dress For A Night Out" to "How To Dress For Your First Date".

*Then, the rest of the audience (make sure to bring your friends and families for applause back-up!) will chose the winners and they will get $100 Macy's Gift Cards!!! (Love that!).

*I'll be giving tips on the "do's" and "maybe not's" for Spring 2011 Fashion as well as What's On Trend.
*If you come out, I'll be taking all the Facebook, Twitter, MySpace pics you want afterward and you might also (an added bonus) end up on my "Macy's Chicago Photo Recap" RIGHT HERE on my BLOG in an upcoming post!!! See you Saturday!

Here Are The Details:
What: Macy's "Putting It All Together" Fashion Event & Contest Hosted by Nick Verreos

Where: Macy's: 111 North State Street Chicago, IL

When: 2pm

RSVP: Just show up!!!

0 Nick Verreos Does Chicago! A "Sneak Peak" at MSN.com "The Victory Project Chicago"!!!

Shopping, Eating...and Filming...in Chicago!Nick Verreos Loves Shopping...and Macy's!

Happy Labor Day Weekend Kids! Labor Day is about relaxing , traveling, maybe spending time with friends and family...unfortunately for me (and my NIKOLAKI partner, David Paul) we are "sequestered" at our L.A. Nikolaki Studio working on our upcoming Spring 2011 Collection (soon I will post Details on the "When and Where" of our show for Style Week Orange County!) But...I figured this would be a great time to post some photos from my trip last week to Chicago! (see how I tie-in the "traveling" part of Labor Day Weekend??).

Brian Entringer--a friend who met me for breakfast while I was in Chicago--and I pose in front of The Peninsula Hotel Chicago Lion Statues

I flew to the "Windy City" (it was GA-GA-GORGEOUS!! And not windy...or raining..or humid) to shoot my "Fashion Makeover" segments for the four AMAZING ladies of the MSN.com Web-show "The Victory Project". I spent about a week there--I will post my Recap with photos of the "Makeovers" soon!--during my stay in Chicago, I was lucky enough to stay at the beautiful Peninsula Hotel.

The Peninsula Hotel Chicago Bathtub in my room...which I didn't get to use :(

Unfortunately, I didn't get to spend much time in my fabulously appointed room since I spent most of my time shopping for the ladies to get just the right looks as well as filming. I shopped at Macy's Water Tower Place for TEN HOURS!
Jennifer Castaneda, a Producer on "The Victory Project"( and a doppelganger for Vanessa Hudgens!) "holds" my jewelry, Macy's Chicago Water Tower Place

I host a lot of Fashion Director Events for Macy's across the country so you know I love me some Macy's. But let me tell you, the sales associates at this particular store were AMAZING! Nick "hearts" them!

Posing and Filming: Nick Verreos with Producers Jennifer Castaneda and Erin Nikaido, Cinnamon Boutique Chicago, MSN.com The Victory Project

We also shopped--and actually filmed my segments at two very chic Chicago boutiques, including Cinnamon in Roscoe Village, as well as Perchance, in the Southport Corridor shopping district.

Nick Verreos holds a very special Red Peanut Mole Cake, Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill Restaurant Chicago

After all the shopping and hours and hours of filming, there was nothing else but to go to sleep! But first: One night I had the pleasure of having a late-night dinner with my clients at the very-sought after Frontera Grill and Topolobampo Restaurant. Somehow, they procured a reservation--at like 9:30 pm!--and as tired as I was, I decided I also needed to eat! After the dinner (Owner Rick Bayless was THERE! Eating at a nearby counter kids!), I was about to get up and leave, when THE Frontera Grill Pastry Chef, Melissa Novak and one of the executive waiters Paco Zamora, came and brought me--yes, ME! A succulent Red Peanut Mole Cake! It's NOT on the Menu, they reassured me--and it was OUT of this WORLD!!!!!

Finally, speaking of food, on my last night--after filming for fourteen hours, I came back to my Peninsula Hotel and ordered in. I decided to just get "The Burger"--a $50 Peninsula Burger (see photo above)-- Yep, $50!! That's what the total came out to...but HUNEY...it was SOOOOOOO worth it! Between that Burger (sorry Vegetarians!) and that aforementioned cake---there's nothing better to cap off my evenings in Chicago!

Go to MSN.com The Victory Project for updates on the 4 FABULOUS Chicago Ladies!!!